The Sun. — London, England, 1810-12-31 00:00:00

11 I, he ni Le l - 1 penters haste. been emp'oyed for some time, in en, dearonring ,to save the materials. None of the Nymphe's; crew were lOst; but the bodies of eleven seamen belonging to the Pallas.haV.e been Cast ashore and decently interred. s .‘ It deserves to ,be'rnade public, that on the recent , Melancholy wreck of the Nym . p/to a n d 1 7 :allas 4a • fri gates, the Duchess of Roxburgh no sooner heattl.of the unfortunate circumstance, than witlrher charac, teristic promplitude and humanity, .she ordered all the robins of Boxttiouth heu,e to lzke prepared with matresses and hot blankets, to receive the:sufferers. Dr. JoaNSTONE, and Mr. To lINBULL, surgeon, of bunbar, were also in rtadiuess; and by their;unre- Tnitting exertions the whole, except the Fir'st Lieu • 'tenant of the Pallas incl•two sailors, Were sufficiently recovered to be able to le .ve Broxn.outh in the e vening. The three persons abovementioned were confined; and very weakly on Sunday last. The poor fellows had clung, diving the whole of the night, to any part of the wreck they could lay hold of, with a tremendous sea constantly breaking over them, so that it is wonderful that not more than eleven are lost. Their bodies were decently interred-at Dunbar on Friday last. Captain C. ):7r. PATERSON, Agent for Prisoners of War at Porchester, is appointed to the Puis sant. - Lieut. THOMAS Rowe, of.the Diana, is proragt.cd to the rank of Commander, for his skilful and gal lant con4,!ct destroying tl:te French frigate L'Elize, near L 3 Hogue.—Lieut. R. W. PAssoss, is appointed to the Diana ; anti Lietii:lattbr WIL KIN.; to the Hope. The convnys fur .t he West" Indies, Mediterranean, and Portugal, were preparing to sail yesterday from Portsmouth ; and it is-with much satisfaction we ktate, , there • is 'every pro3pect of their being able to proceed : many, of, the ships have been detained ten w.eelis,by foul.winds, wOich.nov inclitie to become fair, On Thuri , day Francis Grey and Richard Rowland, seamen of the flainadryad, were .ttied for desert ing- from the boat ot , that ship in August last, at Portsmouth, . In cootidenitisin of their former good character, they were sentenced to receive only 150 lashes,rouidd the. Heel. LEVESON GOWER is appointed to the Eli;. xab.eth, 74, .at-Spilhead. The Al undance store-ship, is loading at Potts mouth for Gibraltar; she wiil sad .sOOO, Ihe 010112 GiendOlVei;: C pain SELBY, an'd the Happy, Capt. A'CounT,, ta•ke the trade from Ports tilonth fi,r the fir , zli, the Cape of Good Hope, and the. Soot hetti -Whale:Fishery.' • • Tue. Boyne, 9H; and the • Conquestadore,74,which were 'launched a •few.• months-since, are ordered to be fitted. tOr commission , .--Lord Wm. STUART is appointed to..the:Conque, , ladote. Ti.e Pqvayante stote-,lnp arrived at Portm , utli on Siturday,.3vitai slispateties Irani --9innthar; in three week-6..4We, understand they—are duplicmea of former di-patches. WYNTARD has come home hi her, wounded. - 1•.. e P tevoyante left Malta on the 22d of (Monti, when the ..41.ontague, Fame, and- Victorious, .were lying there:. ,Suie- lett at Gt . - braltar, the •Blake e Seaarse; •Topaze, and Th a i s .. The Thais 'was . not to tai the Fame, 74, C. pt. it ATI-R.l'l5T, arrived from Malta, when they would both proceed with the convoy Of England. On Monday, Tuesday, Wednes&y, and Thurs -dayia—C-ourt-Martial was held at Portsmouth; upon Capt. Woolcombe, Lieutenant John Brand Umfre ville; "Mr. -V. Minto (Master), mcl Mr. T. Hodgson, (Piloi), of his Majesty's Ship Aimable, for running that ship on shore in Berwick Bay, in the morning of the 25th ult. They were tried separately, that they might be examined on oath, and both against and fcr each. other. It appears that the ship was running for May Island,-Berwick Bay, and that the ,Pilot mistook a light on shore (the same lime-kiln , which was' the cause of the "lois of the Nymphe and 'PO//6')• for the fight of the May, and he altered the course accoalingly. rhe ship was then run ning nine kuots, and though the Otficerof the. watch shortened isall immediately on seeinc , the light, she ,struckJhegroond in about an hour and an halfafter ,•-•-Tlie.,Court, having maturely considered all the tireuniganter, adjudged, that Captain Woolcombe be SEVERELY REPRIMANDEII, as it appeared there 'was a 'Want of sufficient precauilon HETI - from trusting. too much to the Pilot. , That blame was imputable 'to: Lieut. Uinfreville, in not having in formed the Captdin of the light; suppoSed to be , L: May light,. being seets',. ane of the course being altered, although he had,, as Officer of the watch, the Captain's• order to, attend to the Pilot's direc ions. alter a ship's course, without the Captain's •order, is to violate the Naval iustrutlions ; but, in consideration of his Prompt and officer-like con_ duet,. after The laud \vas seen, and to which the safety of the ship may be. principally attri buted, tare Court did adjOugehm to be only ad monished to be more attentive in future., That no blame was imputable,to Mr. I'vf into, and did' adjudge him tote acquitted. That great blame was imput-, able to Thomas Hodgson, the pilot, for general. erroneous judgment and incautious conduci. during the night, and did adjudge him to I” severely cen sured, aid imilisooed. in the Marshalsea for three, months.---liar-Admiral Hargood, Presidenti Cap tains J. N. Morris, Wilkinson, Bassett, Irwin, Sir Arch. Dicks: n, Prowse, Owen, Hall, C. J. Austen, Selby, J. Warren, and Nash, members. ' The Hamburglt Correspondenten, of the lith De cember, states, under date Naples, Nov. 26, that King JOACHIM was about to visit Apulia, whither his travelling equipage had pi oceeded. At an early hour on Saturday morning the LORD CHANCELLOR and Mr. PRIICLVAL left Louden fur Windsor, t hey . arrived ,aDout eleven o'clock and, had a consultation with the Physkia , s, attending th e KING, which lasted nearly two hours, alttr which ti.q left Windsor fur 'Loudon. , POETRY. THE TWO HERVEY . O. Two rlervey,s had a mutual Wish TO please in separate stations, - The one invented SA UCE FOR FISH, The other " MEDIT A TIONS.' Each has his pungent powers applied To aid the dead and dying, That_ relishes a Soal when fried This saves the Soul from frying. THE THEATRE. - -The fine old Comedy of A New Way to Pay . ' Old Debts, was brought forward On' Saturday' last at Covent Garden Theatre, With'the splendour which usually marks the'representations at'that Theatre. Mr. KEMBLE, who, we believe, had originally the merit of r&iving this play at York, whence it was soon transferred to the London boaeds, perforMed the part of Sit Giles OVerreach, a part in which he distinguished himself many years ago at DI ury-Lane Theatre. It, is natural to sup pose that in' the, progress of time and experience he must have improved in his judgment, and that he supported the part with increased ability. He: • deservedly received applause through out , b u t hi s merit was chi e fly distinguishable in the latter part of the Play;when Sir Giles finds that he has beer) be trayed, that' all his plans have been frustrated, and all his hopes defeated.--Here he worked himself up to a climax of rage and deSperation which .ma nifested uncbminen skill, and forcibly iinpressed ihe audience. 'Hs manner of vilting the sage, .as .if wholly exhausted by the confliaing emotions of a proud, treacherous, and disappointed heart, was a very fine spe c i men o f t h eatr i ca l s kill , and excited very' warm . applaus,‘..- . --Mf. C. K EMBLE - was e:sy, manly, and interesting in ltellborn. •MUNDEN dis played 'great humour and • .ability •in Mardi/- ; 'and I , TON was most -admirably diverting in Justice ee4.-- , The Play' was altogether so that it is' likely , to become very attraZlive. The house , was crowded in all parts, and the tiew Pan tomime of thy legain: and Asmodeus went off with great eclat. BILA,HAII is still performi ng w i t h very great suc cess at Edinburgh. His professional merits' have received the support of some very liberal and elegant criliciatu iii The Evening Courant of - that City. 'ln deed the critiques' in that paper, in point of candour and judgment,, are generally of a . -very superior k Md. - We are sorry to learn that Mr. ARNOLD, of the Lyceum Theatre, bas been in a very alarming state Of" indisposition, but is recovering. Yesterday we received 4uenos Ayres G,zettes to, the' loth of Oeloberr Theyanneuncet the arryal of the AtiVetoe schponer, from Rio_ Janeiro, with dis patches to the Junta, from Lord)STRANGFORD, le- lative to the'blockode of the Rio la Plata. The following ,letter from his Lordship ltai been pub lished iu aGazette Extraordinary. DISI'ATCti FROM LORD VRANGFORD. Most Excellent Senior—l hav'e received the seve ral Notes of your Excellency, for which I return your ExceLency my 'sincerest acknowledgments._ the promptitude with which it is necessary that the ' Mis'ewe schooner set out for Buehos Ayres, and the pressure of other business, do mit uow permit me to answer your much esteemed • communication so fully or,explicitly as they deserve. I cannot suf . .; fi6iently expre,s the deep regret which the informa tionjti every respea has occasioned to me, of there having occurred any circumstances capable of di minishing that confidence and cordiality that ought to subsist between all the agents of his Britannic Majesty and the brave and genet ous ,people of Spa nish America, united as we ar le , in the same cause, and against' _the same . common enemy.. I, think it necessary, however; to -assure your Excellency, in the most positive and authentic man ner, that no English Officer has ever received, either front me or from the Admiral ho cnmrnands in chief, any instructions to co-operate in the block ade of the capital, which the lopal authorities of MOnte Video have!thotight proper, tn undertake, nor even to lend their aid or co ncurrence , to , any ' hOstile enterprize against that capital :, on the conk trary, I declare to your. Excellency, with the great estsincerity, and in . this public manner, that accord. ing to the orders issued to all the British Officers in the Rio de la-Plata, all interference in poleical affairs ak . has been unif orm ly prohibited. , I' have transmitted : in due course, and without any deLy, to my Oourt, your Ex'Oellency's observa tions on those subjects, because to the British Go- ' vernment only,. and ,not to use, the .o,fficer ot,whom your Excellency complains is responsible fur his con dua and .proceedings. in the mean time, I have the, bononr to infor m yo ur Axcenpncy that Admi ra l De oourcey , is going tin mediately, to .the, Rio. de la Plata,' to assume the thief c eommand, and I have DO . doubt that he will adopt the mos t e ffi cac i ous means to remove the • obstacles that have hitherto obsiruaed British commerce, so libera,lly and ge- • nerbusly, protected by you. Eacelleney, i n. a man ner quite contrary to_ the forms and common prac tice.ofall nations, .and wholly oppoSite te the esta blished usages (ar . .States in aunty ~with each ocher. I must also add, that yotir Excellency will have the goodness to ,excuse the brevity of th;s commu nication, considering that it is occasioned by a de sire,, on my part, to forward au answer as' soon as possible, though iu - an itnperseet form, to the last communications of your Excellency. I havethe honour to be, Your Excelceney's Most obedient and humble Servant, • STRANGFORD. Rio de Janeiro, Ott. t, 113 to. To their Excellencies the Governing I unta.of the Capital'aud Provinces of the Rio de la Plata. A fire broke out on Saturday morning, at a house in element's-lane,. Strand, ultieh burnt rapidly for a short time, but was fortunately got under without doing greater damage than destroying part of the building where it first broke out. ' A . female, named Ramsay, who hid for, some time past otitaitied a living by begging 'in the strects, died on Friday; 'in St. Thomas's Hospital, leaving oy will an annuity& 401. per annum, and about 701. ui cash, to a relative. 44MERICAN PdPERS. NEW-YORK, DEC. 4.—A ;otter from our Cor respondent at, Washington, dated last Thursilay evening,. says :—Owing . to , bad roads, neither Gen. Verytim.,. the Speaker of the House of Representa lives, nor many o f t h e Members, have yet arrived; and I amssatisfied there will be no House on Mon day, so that ,you need not look for the President's Message to be delivered before Wednesday." DECEMBER I. • The following extra& of a letter is from a Gen tleman of the first respecitabtlity at Washington, Mksissippi territory, to his•. friend in the c!ry of Washington, hearing date oJoher 30, r S " The situation of Florida m-st certainly claims the earliest possible attention of our Government, for unless they are adopted intp our 'amity of Governments, there is :nuch rooor to fear that one of the Great'Belligerents- of Europe will attempt laying violent - hands _upon these provinces, .to the ; incalculable injury, of the United States : indted, I verily bdieve there is a strong party in that coun try in far our of its pupilage, to , Great Britain ; vet, I am persuaded, such a measure could pot be ef fected without a noble and manly struggle by every real American witiln the Province, aided by hun dreds without." The two 'following Queries have been proposed to Mr. Gallatin, to which he hasgiven the sur•joined repties Ist. \Yhether goods shipped. from England prior to the P-d of February next, Out arriving subsequently thereto, would be subject to seizure, or. admitted to an entry ?•--=And 2dly, whether a vessel with a cargo .of British goods Would be permitted to call within the waters of the:United States tor,orders, or nalearn the coat.nuance of the No- intercourse answer to the first, Mr. Gallatin. stated, that all goods im ported from •thedorninions r;f Great Britain, , end ar ! . riving within the United , States subsequent to the 2d of February, will becOrne forfeited, .if Great Bri tain shall not on that day have revoked her eclids. It follows. that. if • no kt:owledge of such . 1 - evocation is -known here by the 2d of February, goods import ed as aforesaid will be subject to seizure.' • In answer to the second, viz. whether vessels would be permitted to call, - &c. Mr. - Gallatin was not so explicit, but said it would • be left to the Courts to decide; that the-law would be rigidly en forced in all cases of arrivals atter the t , cl February; and belted it to be understood, .that there would be no release froin the Treasury Department. He men tioned this, he said ; because several releases had been made.under different • circumstances, which 'be 'ex plained, upon the arrival of vessels after,the revival of the law under Mr. Erskine's arrangement. In that case, it was the act of the Executive, and of th.e British Minister, Which induced merchants to git,e . orders—here it was under a law well known, and that it would- be unsafe to make any risks ; and that all shipments from England will be attended with , risk and hazard, unless the revocation on her part is free, and perfeelly eatisfaCtory. Mr. Gallatin is-also of opinion, that the Orders in Council. of No - : , yea:her are done away by the Order of Blockade of April; so that a repeal el , er Paper Blockade (so called) is the principal thing dernaeded. The Pre sident, by making the l e t ter o f the. French Minister the basis - of his Proclamation, has taken it with the conditions annexed ; one of which is, that England shall repeal her blockades. From this it is interred, that a formal repeal of the Orders in Council of November Will not 'be 'cle:ined satisfaaory by this Government for-preventing the Non-Intercourse., TUMULT AT ST. BARTHOLOMEW ST. BARTHOLOMEW,' OCT. 22.—The disturbance which broke out here was occasioned by his Excel lency• tile Commander in Chief having tilled Up the vacancy in a company of militia without consulting the non-commissioned officers and privates„ who claimed the nominaan pis their right, and . refused to' receive the new Captain. After a deliy of two 'dam a peremptory order was issued fur disarmiog the two militia companies, and the militia of the interior, Was direCted to repair to the environs of the town, with field-pieces,' &c. Combined with these intended coercive measures, the GoVernor mid' his Major let drop', some threatening expressions,wh:ch decided the militia companies' as to' the conduCt they should pursue. At the moinent'eif•tihrng their arms, the Major made signals•for au alarm to be fired from 'the main Mai' in consequence he' was. put under Arresti . and • it appearing,' upou an interview with the Governor, that his confidence. had been- abused, it was thdnght necessary, for the tranquility of the colony, to send. the Major 'away ; and ad resumed their obedience to the Governor's authority. . . The codicils to'the late Duke Of CLVEENSBERRY'S will are'tio less than twenty-five in number, two of w114:1) 'miry have atte4ting . witnesses so that all the, rest must be severally substantiated by affidavits, proving them to be in the hand-writing of his Grace. 'A donation of 2501. was a short time since en, closed in a letter to Mr. PERCEIAL, to be applied on account of the Property-Tax. Saturday morning, about 6 o'clock, a Gentleman, .who is a merchant in the City, gained admittance into Carlton House, on the pretence - that.he had an importantlmessage to deliver to the Prince of Wales from the Queen ; he added, that he, had c , ,me ex press from Windsor, , The stranger was ushered up stairs by the night porter, to the ,Page's room, who, .on seeing . him, asked his business. Th e stranger .wade a low bow to.the Page, and asked hint it h e was the Heir Apparent ? . The Page, perceiving a wildness. in the Gentleman's eyes, (atter assuring him that he was not the PrinCe of Wales, but would comdua, halm thither) took him \ by the hand, and. politely led him down to the great hall, and from th tt nce into the court-yard, and shut the door against him. There he made great noise, calling upon the Prince of Wales to place him in. Parliament, aid then .he would reform the Counrry. With the assistance of the watchmen he was conveyed into the street, and shortly atter Sayers, the Officer `the Police, - dvlivered him over to the custody of his friends, who, of course, took the 'necessary care of the un happy Gentleman. LISBON P.4PERS. • - LISBON, DEC !C.—A/Litters remain mach in tb •SOOle state as when the last packet sai'ed. Ma,sen, appears to be -sirengihenig him , ell at Santarem ( Our army i, in thesame positio n -i n his front ;Ge neral >#i;l is on t h e left bank o f th e T agus, and .several corps of irregulars, whiar.are in the rear the enemy, are daily-gaining strength. s W e a re as sured there are 15 , 000 men `at Colnthra• The enemy made an attack a few days .ag:) on the Is;u of Leon,.were repuia ,- d with great loss ; , we also Jost, ,ome men and otfi(is, ly,t no diiiiht the parti cularskaye already reached you from Cadiz. . ,Aljor Fen wick, of the Butt's, was killed this: week in attacking about tuo french won i'ortu guese chasseurs ; lie beat the eu nice, and took from them a considerable convoy of cattle, but the Mai , it unfortunalely mortally wounded, and seven men killed.. , DEC 14.—According to several letters limn a re spectable source, our advanced gnarls at Ajcob +ca . have b,d an encounter with the fFrencli, - who . were carrying off a number of cattle. .They killed five, made-five prisoners, and r-ok from thy though they 'rid the mi , fortone to have an officer morally - Wounded, because lie -was so ' esk as tO place confidence in the enemy, who tie3d promised to surrender, butal.-rwards fired upon iihn. Many persuns have lately arrived ,from Molnar and Torres No , as, from whom wejeat &that the-et tOrtions of the French have ,increased'io an insole-- Table Oegt!.-e. They bring neither military chest, shoes, nor baggage, ev-ry thing must be furnish7d by the peasants, all whose property, 'flccordin. 4 to their military creed, belongs to them. At Torres Novas they first began by asking (or cloaks, shoes, and other necessaries, but soon proceeded to (lemma '4o,ooo ctusadoes. The inhabitants, findiag their could not satisfy such a requisitio!i; Were_ to fly. They_ did not however fly to Lisbon ; omting in small parties, have destroyed many-6f rio French. ArAmoNTE, Nov. 12.—A circular order of Sonit: has" been publiShed in the county of Niebia,recom mending to the Magistrates to oblige the'peasint'4„, to sow the lands, and to pu`nis , h with the grratest` rigour those who shall neglect to do 39, 3 thteot.'-:' ening their !ha( a mili;ary cnief shill be snt elc . ( a nine the grounds, and impose puni4lment for such omission. - . The French continued on the ithh at rviogo , T. Luz, nd Niebla, and have twiny sick. The divi 2 t siov of General Copons appears to be tit Castiiiejns According to,accounts from Estremadura, Marsh Mortier, who had lately advanced with a corps of 5 . or 6000 men, probably with a design to attack tha t division of Generai Blilesteros, appt.ars to have de, sisted from that intention. In tile mein time our troops hive concentrateo them elves in Frexenal, Puente de'Cantos, and the neighhoJrin , g, t illages, have received considerable reinfot cernen s, esi in cavalry. LUCIEN BUONAPARTE reached Lt•dlow on Wed nesday afternoon: The presence of so remarkab'e a stranger attracted to the inn an unusual concou , se . of peo)le, who fdlowed both hint And Mr. MAC KENZIE with great eagerness in their walk round the c istle. Lyntme.-house, near Montgomery, his in tended residence, requiring considerable repsits, Lord Powts is occupied iu preparing for him a , .at her of his seats, five miles from Ludlow,. called Stone house. • It was (-:xueCted that LupieN would remain for a week or ten days at Ludlow, the beauty of the environs appearing to attract his attention... On Sunday se'nnight, t.tweeti .eight and nine o'clock, a noor woman was found lying under the city walls, Carlisle, opposite tne county ja i l. H 1 t condition was most • deplorable :=--Fier.. back and left arm were broken, and she was otherwise: very much bruised. She was brought into the ch y, and every necessary assistance was immediatel pro cured, but it was to no purpose : her mangled sate of body rendered tit impossible either to ,move or to take off her clothe:, after she had been laid down. The unhappy sufferer languished in excru, ciating pain till Tuesday evening. .It appears, from the statement. given by herself, that she was - a na tive of Edinburgh, who had come to Carlisle on bu siness ; that during her stay, in consequence of her money having Jailed her,- the woman of the house with whom she had lodged, had tinned her out on the afternoon of Sunday. This led her to wander behind the walls of the abbey and the county jail * where she was met by two Irishmen, who began to behaVe rudely; and, in consequence of the resistance that she made, they tlrew her down from the wall, which is in height not less than 30 feet. A coro ner's inquest sat - on the body, and brought in their verdiet wilful murder. Thurday morning, a violent whirlwinds'ame on at Diss, in Norfolk, from the S. W. - A post chaise, going over the Common at the time, was upset and dashed to pieces. A gentleman and 'his wife, who were in the -- vehicle, had their collar-bones broken, and were otherwise much bruised, but their ch:l.l and . female servant remained unhurt. SMITHFIELD MARKET, Dec.3l. . This day's Market afforded a large supply of prime Beasts, and the show of -Cattle in general was vcry good • Beef, Mutt on , V ea l , anl 'Pork, sold at last prices,; and the trade for the most part was protty brisk.—The s3les in the - Hay Market were • rather lively; Strp,y has got Op in price; Flay-aild Clover fetched last prices.--' e subjoin an accur<ve state ment of the prices .and numbers:— To sink the ofral per stone of 815. Beef 4s, od. to 55. 4d. Mutton ls. od. to 55. 4cl. Veal 58. c:d to Bs. od.•.Pork ss. od. to 75. od. Lnito us. od. to os. od. Beasts 2680. Sheep 13,100 Ctivcs r9O. Pigs 200. SMITHFIELD HAY-MARKET • flay 51. os. od. to 91. os. od. Straw 21. tos. od. to 31. ss. od. Clover 61. os. cd. to 91. 9s. k,a„ CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 31.--.-The fresh arrivals of Wheat this day make a tolerable supply, out nit much foreign, and sales rather high:r than on Fri day; Barley likewise dearer; Malt at irtle varia tion, as are White and Grey Peas 3Beans of the two Rinds nettly at last price s ; Oats are al.o in to lvrable stiply, and last prices riiiatained; Flow wi,hout